The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

"... Ruth."

Ruth opened her eyes as she heard a gentle call to herself.

What I saw in front of me were clear green eyes like jewels. It is softly arcing and staring at Loose.

"Ah... Alec"

Alec was there to shine his green eyes and blonde hair. He is sitting on Ruth's bed and peeking.

When I saw Ruth wake up, I smiled and stroked my cheeks.

"You slept quite late today, didn't you? Ruth"

"Alec, why are you here...?

"What? Why, because I moved from church to your room yesterday, right?

"Eh...?

Ruth got up from bed.

Looking at the room, I noticed a lot of Alec's personal belongings there. Bookshelves packed with books, used desks, and laboratory equipment were in Alec's room.

They were neatly arranged in Ruth's room and ready to use.

"I'm sorry I let you clean up yesterday. But you have to hurry up. I'm not relaxed."

As Alec reached out to Ruth, he gently hugged him to handle the broken object.

"We can't live together now. Say hello."

From now on?

"Ah, from now on. You promised to run the inn together, right?

"... Yaku, I'm soaking..."

A promise Alec made to Ruth before he went on the journey of the brave.

Ruth twisted his body in Alec's arm and looked up a little surprised and gently touched his cheeks.

"Alec, what is it?

"Hmm?... do you see anyone but me?

Alec leaned his neck with a smile. Ruth touches his golden hair, neat eyebrows, shaped ears and soft mouth. I checked thoroughly to see if it was different from what I remember.

Alec kept quiet without saying anything when Ruth touched him, but his eyes relaxed when he touched his neck or shoulders and chest.

"What's the matter, Ruth? I've been tickling for a while now."

"You're really Alec, right?

"You don't have two of these faces, do you?

Looking into Ruth's face, Alec laughed softly and kept on mouthing.

It was so light that he couldn't tell if he had touched it or not, but Alec smiled with love and certainly his own face.

"Ah, Alec...."

Ruth turned his arm around Alec's back, feeling proud. Hugging your thicker body harder than when you first started traveling.

"... what's wrong? Ruth"

"I hate it, I had a dream... A very nasty dream."

Rather than saying it out loud, it's a very nasty dream that I don't want to remember again.

A hell of a dream that breaks everything you cherished.

"Are you okay? Are you off work at the hotel today?

"No, I'm fine. It turned out to be a dream, and I'd rather work and forget."

It must have been something similar to the dream of the previous life. There's no way it's real.

I wanted to forget that impossible dream sooner.

Labor is the best way to do that. If you work with Alec, you'll feel the worst in no time. Anyway, Alec will be by Ruth's side from now on. I can manage the inn I was looking forward to together.

"That's fine... don't be impossible.

Ah.

"Ruth, come on, get up! I'm not letting Alec do anything!

Ruth replied cheerfully to Alec, and the voice of her mother Celine echoed from outside the door.

Alec turned into Ruth and worked in the morning, but he didn't want to leave his son alone forever.

"I feel like doing this a little bit more... but Celine is angry, so why don't we get out of here?"

That's right.

Ruth let go, missing Alec's arm. I noticed that I was still asleep, and I took the clothes that were on the side.

"Ruth, I'll go down first and forgive Celine."

"Wait a minute."

"You don't have to hurry.... Celine, I just woke up."

Hold on, Alec.

Alec opens the door and leaves, calling Celine.

(Wait, Alec)

Chilly is crawling up my spine.

Fearing the effects of a bad dream or Alec's disappearance from sight, Ruth hurried to open the door in a hurry to change his clothes.

"Alec, I'm finished dressing now... eh?

The door to the room was opened not in the hallway of my usual home - it was a dark room.

On the ceiling of the room is a white line with a large pentagonal star, with a strong glow at the tip of the five corners. From there, the straight line descended down the wall to the floor, and headed towards the center. --In the middle, I noticed Alec sitting facedown with someone in his arms.

Alec, this is...

Ruth rushed to the side, realizing who Alec was holding.

"Ruth, why..."

There was myself - Ruth - who punctured his chest, bled from his mouth, and looked up at the universe with his lost eyes. Ruth's body was unresponsive to Alec's arm shake, like a puppet with a broken thread.

Alec shed tears as he stared at Ruth.

"... Ruth, Ruth... why..."

Ruth rushed to Alec in a hurry.

"Alec, that's not me, that's me! I'm alive!

He tried to grab his shoulders and let them see him, but Alec's gaze turned towards the dead man in his arm and he didn't respond to Ruth's voice.

"Why did you leave me... to run an inn together..."

"Alec, that's not me! I'm alive. I'm here. Look at me!

Ruth grabbed Alec's face and turned him towards him.

"... Ruth, don't leave me alone..."

Alec didn't react to what Ruth was supposed to see. She still mourns the death of Ruth in her arms with her dark eyes, which have lost their glow.

"Alec, look at me! Look at me... what is it!?

I finally realized that the darkness around Alec was slowly swallowing his body. Although Ruth has no influence on the darkness, Alec alone sinks into the darkness with every dead Ruth as if he had fallen into a bottomless swamp.

"Ah, Alec, get up here! Don't stay there!

"Ruth...."

"Alec, hurry! Me too!"

Tell Alec to move, but he didn't keep staring at dead Ruth. Ruth was desperate to pull Alec's arm, but he couldn't lift his sinking body.

Leaving only Ruth, Alec gradually disappears into the darkness.

"Alec! Don't stay there, Alec! Stay with me! Please, Alec!

"... Ruth... what are you doing...?"

Ruth's efforts were also frustrating, and Alec's body sank into the darkness.

Ruth couldn't even put a finger in there, and eventually he couldn't even grab Alec. Golden hair slips through my fingers.

"Alec! No, Alec! Alec!"

Until the end, Alec sank into the darkness without looking at Ruth.

"... Alec!

Only Ruth's sad screams echoed into the darkness.

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─ Hah!

I felt like I was awake from the water.

I felt my breathing was disturbed, but the strange sound didn't resonate.

"Alec? Alec?

I searched for Alec with a dazzling sense of bright light, but there was no one around who Ruth was looking for.

"Alec, where are you? Alec!

Ruth tried to get up to find Alec, but for the first time he realized something was wrong with his body.

"Oh, it doesn't move... my body doesn't move... what's going on?

Ruth realizes that his hands and feet are completely immobile. On the contrary, even the head and neck do not move slightly, and the surroundings can only be checked to the extent that the eyes can be moved.

"Hey, what's going on here...?"

As I panicked, I tried desperately to move my body again and again.

As well as feeling irritated by the immobile body, I remember that my head gradually became calm.

Well, speaking of which, I'm sure....

Bright red heart.

Burning fever with pain.

Alec's crying voice.

Fading consciousness.

"I'm dead."

Ruth is dead.

A little hand from Aristotle's glass case grabbed my heart and pulled it out. And he died without worthy of the treatment around him.

So....

I ran into an administrator who called me "The Star.”

Administrator- I met Alec's main torturer and heard stories about my previous life. He taught me the truth about Alec's mission and the meaning of Ruth's title.

But with Natasha's help, I managed to force Ruth back into the world.

Well, it's the same thing as then.

The situation was exactly the same as it was when Alec was called back to the world and didn't react.

At that time, I couldn't move my body at all, so I left Alec to be transported to Orha.

Does that mean the same thing... that Alec...?

Your physical condition links to the last memory you saw.

Given the circumstances, Ruth must have stayed that way. I mean, Alec...

"Hmm... you still don't know Alec, don't tease me."

Alec could not discard the possibility that it was all Ruth's fantasy that he was drunk in the dark. In the first place, it's not clear whether it's real now or not.

"Anyway, if we don't check the situation, then we'll decide... and where are we?

On clean white walls with no dirt, long, hairy carpets, a well-measured chest, and a metal bed frame - Ruth didn't recognize the view in front of him.

"No... I've seen walls like this before... that's for sure..."

While Ruth was searching for memories, he heard a noisy voice across the front door.

"Why are you here again?! We all made that promise once a day!

"Alright, you've been seeing me so many times a day, just like me!

Ruth heard two young voices roaring across the door.

This voice......

One is a young voice against serious and firm verbalism. Will my voice alone be less than ten years old? I get the impression that it's a little awkward.

The other is an energetic voice that seems restless even though it is supposed to be older in age. Sometimes it sounds like Oocal's roar.

But the two men in Ruth's memory could not have been fighting. If they lived in a different country, they wouldn't even know their faces or their names.

However, both of us continue to interact with Ruth.

"I'm not here to make a scene like Kia, I'm here for an inspection!

"Lie to me, I know Ed doesn't come out of Ruth's room every time! You must be doing something weird!

"Ah, aren't you going to do something weird to Ruth in that state! Please don't say anything that could lead to a misunderstanding... I'm just holding my hand and waiting for it to happen."

"That's not good! I want to!

"Why don't you do it during your visitation time!

"Forget it when you smell it!... I don't smell Ruth."

"Are you stupid!? I'm coming in! Please be quiet."

When the younger voice said so, the noisier instantly shut up.

The door in front of Ruth opens.

Kia, and Ed, why are you two...

It was the two of us who opened the door and asked gently inside.